I went to a Beethoven 'concert' at the local university, where he rocked a Steinway on the Sonata Op 10 no 2, (der Grafin Anna Margariete von Brown etc.

Wow, but he was eccentric to a fault, and his head moved even at the amazing speed, and I had to close my eyes.

Awesome.

You need to hear someone really good on a great piano to 'get it'.

Last time there my friend Paul who teaches the Piano Tech course (a one year, learn it all piano tuning repair course), showed us his string winding gear and made a bass string for us.)

We get home, have a beer, (my buddy and I, our wives work), and my wife came home. She pulls a Beethoven book out of her library and plays the dang thing, sort of. But heck she almost hasn't played that kind of stuff for 30 years. Get on the horse eh? Then I notice pencil marks. She played it as part of the requirements of her course. Gee...

John Conley
Musica est vita